Four killed as trawler drives into Chelum procession

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Matiari: At least four people, three women and a child among them, were killed and seven others injured when an overspeeding trawler drove into a Chehlum procession here on Thursday.

According to Assistant Commissioner Abdul Majeed Zohrani, the accident occured on the National Highway when a Chehlum procession taken out from the Pirzada Muhalla was passing through the highway. The overspeeding trawler drove through the procession killing three women and a children and injuring seven others.

The assistant commissioner said that the seriously injured had been shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad.